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project: Henslowe Alleyn Digitisation Project (HADP )
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- Drama and Theatre
- English Literature and Languages
- History
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| Project start date: 2006-01 | Project end date: 2009-11 |
Edward Alleyn was the Elizabethan actor-manager who founded Dulwich College; with his father-in-law Philip Henslowe he ran several of the most successful acting companies of Shakespeare's time, including the Lord Admiral's Men, and expanded a number of London theatres, among them the Rose. The Henslowe-Alleyn Archive (held at at Dulwich College) consists of over 2000 pages of fragile manuscripts comprising the most important extant archive of material relating to drama and performance in the early modern period.
The Henslowe-Alleyn Digitisation Project, co-sponsored by the University of Reading and King's College London's Centre for Computing in the Humanities, will make the single largest manuscript collection on early modern English theatre production and performance available as an electronic archive and website.
| Methods used | Category |
|---|---|
| 2d scanning and photography | Data capture |
| Accessibility analysis | Strategy and project management |
| Coding and standardisation | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Collating | Data analysis |
| Documentation | Strategy and project management |
| General project management | Strategy and project management |
| General website development | Data publishing and dissemination |
| Image feature measurement | Data analysis |
| Image manipulation | Practice-led research |
| Image restoration | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Preservation | Strategy and project management |
| Resource sharing | Communication and collaboration |
| Server scripting | Data publishing and dissemination |
| Text encoding - descriptive | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Text encoding - presentational | Data structuring and enhancement |
| Usability analysis | Strategy and project management |
| Version control | Strategy and project management |
| Web browser scripting | Data publishing and dissemination |
Manuscripts
Website containing contextual materials; online catalogue of several thousand images (and metadata), which can be viewed at ultra high resolution
TIFF to JPG surrogates and Zoomify tiles for web delivery; METS to XHTML for navigation of the catalogue of images; XML to XHTML
| UK HE institutions involved: |
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| King's College London |
| University of Reading |
| Other institutions involved: |
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| Dulwich College |
| Principal staff member: | Dr Grace Ioppolo |
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| Other staff: | Computing officer(s) / Technical supporter(s) |
| External expertise: | David Cooper (independent digitisation specialist) |
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| This project description was developed as part of the ICT Guides project. |
| Metadata on this arts-humanities.net record | |
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| Author(s) of record | Paul Vetch |
| Title | Henslowe Alleyn Digitisation Project (HADP ) |
| Record created | 2009-09-29 |
| Record updated | 2010-01-25 17:05 |
| URL of record | http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2339 |
| Citation of record | Paul Vetch: Henslowe Alleyn Digitisation Project (HADP ). <http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2339> created: 2009-09-29, last updated 2010-01-25 17:05 |
